Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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European opera houses, hoping to re-enact the Continental success stories of George London, Leontyne Price, Gloria Davy, et al. Although a great many of the new U.S. expatriates would prefer to sing at home, there is no room for them in the three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some...
...Raise income taxes and crack down on its flagrant tax-dodging (and in the case of three smaller nations, enact so far neglected personal income-tax laws). Bringing collections up to U.S. standards would produce an extra $2 billion a year for development...
...floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress. He got the session off to a fighting start with a first-blow message calling upon Congress to break the "legislative log jam" and enact 21 measures that he had been calling for since last spring...
...programs is just a little bit silly." He was "just asking for what I have always believed." And "all this talk about Congress having to take weeks and months to get simple actions carried out and accomplished is a little bit silly," too. If the Democrats really wanted to "enact a constructive program, it could be done very quickly, because they've got a 2-to-1 majority in both houses...
...Kennedys and in-laws (including Jackie's pretty sister, Princess Radziwill). The special three-week session of Congress, said Jack, would absorb all of his and L.B.J.'s time and attention until Labor Day; despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower vetoed or the Republicans closed ranks in opposition, that would stoke up the campaign too. Said Jack Kennedy: "The American people will be quick to spot...